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What factors make a country successful?
Two vital components of any successful country are the health, and happiness of its citizens. A country may be wealthy, and powerful, but if its citizens live short or unhappy lives, is it really successful? Wealth is important only in so far as it encourages greater well-being.
Why do some countries remain poor?
These include low levels of education, poor water quality or a lack of doctors. Political factors – some countries are at war or the government may be corrupt. Therefore money does not reach the people who need it most and spending on areas such as education and infrastructure may be insufficient.
Should poor countries be helped by rich countries?
Some say that rich countries should help poor countries with trade, health and education. Improvements in health, education and trade are essential for the development of poorer nations. Some say that the governments of richer nations should take more responsibility for helping the poorer nations in such areas.
Why are some countries poor?
What makes a weak country weak?
Fragile states are also known as weak states. Fragile states fail to fully meet key needs of their citizens. The shortcomings are termed gaps, with three core gaps: security gap, capacity gap, and legitimacy gap. This differs from a failed state, whose governments totally lack legitimacy.
Why are some countries developed and others not?
Physical factors – some areas have a hostile or difficult landscape. This can make development more difficult. Examples of this are very hot climates or arid (a lack of water) climates which make it difficult to grow sufficient food. Economic factors – some countries have very high levels of debt .
What are the characteristics of poor countries?
The accepted characteristics of a poor country like India are very low per capita income, very high population, high population growth, high inflation, adverse balance of trade, poor infrastructure and high corruption.
What are the problems of the third world countries?
Corruption, poverty, war, hunger, healthcare, education, safety. These are only a few of the problems faced by people in developing countries. Many of these problems are caused by exclusion, fear, intimidation, broken infrastructure, and lack of money, resources, access to information, and tools.
Why do developing countries take loans from rich countries?
The increased amount of debt cannot help the people from developing country to escape poverty either. Many developing countries demands for loans from the rich in a hope to use to money to develop their countries. Many loans were borrowed during the period of wars to buy weapons and food supply.
What are the main causes of poverty in developing countries?
The causes to poverty in developing countries are various and dependent on different countries. But the most common cause that is pervasively found in every developing world is corruption.
Are developing countries working together to eradicate poverty?
As far as we could see, the developing countries themselves are working collectively with developed world and international organizations in an aim to alleviate then ultimately eradicate poverty. However, there are a few reasons that could disrupt such cooperation from achieving its goal.
Should countries following Mad be allowed to keep their nuclear weapons?
Thus a country following MAD may decide that removing their nuclear weapons is too big of a risk if other countries are allowed to keep theirs.